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@Mikael89 It is good to do SDS after you more or less know that you are not the person doing the sitting but rather, the awareness of it. That way, you can sit and watch the discomfort in more of a detached manner. In fact the less you believe you are the person, the less the discomfort. (The Buddha would have had prior insights into this before his final 'push through'). As in your last SDS, you were not unreasonably pushing yourself too far beyond comfort, but just testing the limit of 'how far you were willing to go'. You could just keep chipping away at your 'limit of comfort' with SDS to see it change over time. You would be effectively slowly working at fear/anxiety reduction so that you can have more surety that 'something nasty' will not happen to you. It is only fear itself that is the nastiness. So no-one is asking you to go past your limits, but testing them can be very revealing.

@Torkys Exactly who/what is going in and out? (Presence does not go in or out. It does not move). Isn't it only 'what you think you are' that does this?

Reread what you have said here. You already know how to be integral/whole/un-split (no words capture this, they only obscure it); it is effortless, as you have illustrated. It is only ego (what/who you think you are) that wants to integrate what is already integral. Watch when you go into thought. Isn't it only fear that prompts this?

All you ever find is sensations, ie, nothing physical at all.

Thinking I am someone in some situation.

I find when I have long spells of being alone to not take mental positions - then I am fine.

I found self-love by not being anything at all.

Interview where Roger Castillo puts his teaching in a nutshell. IMO, very helpful.

I have found Byron Katie's "The Work" good for this.

The dream we live in is entirely self created (projected). In the dream consciousness limits itself (via thought) to a mind which is (thought to be) in a body that is (thought to be) in an environment - all of it mental projection. Do you not have similar night-time dreams. And then wake up.

@SoonHei You as you think you are, ie ego, someone living in an environment, is not what you actually are. Direct experience reveals what you actually are. I as I actually am is direct experience. There is no me and no others and no where else in direct experience.

@How to be wise You are doing well. A great example of The Work. Thank you.

You can see there is a table there. It's just that it's not physical (ie, you cannot prove it is).

When you touch the table top with your fingers there is just a sensation. Now how do you prove that there is a material table top you have touched? You can't.

@yasaidasai Sounds like you have seen that the thought constructed you in the thought constructed world is just that, IOW a thought story. You are actually self-aware experience or awareness - the knowing that is not separate from the known. And you are grounded moment to moment in and as this.

It is only the level you are at that is seeing 'damage'. If someone does not learn, the stakes are raised until they eventually do learn. But after learning you do not see any damage, and if you do you are grateful that it happened; it was required to get you to learn.

You cannot reason with them. You just make an observation and leave it at that. In due course, as they 'grow,' they will probably recall your statement and see the sense in it.

@Etagnwo Usually a few words from someone shows 'where they are coming from'. Like using words like "manipulative asshole" for instance.

IME, most everyone has a predominant world view and unless you take that into account when you are conversing you will not communicate. Additionally you may get 'crucified' as was Jesus' experience.

@brugluiz It is important that everyone expresses and acts, otherwise we would not evolve. It sounds like what you are doing (blogging about the bad things conventional psychiatry does) is consciousness raising. Well done. Have you read "Dispelling Wetiko" by Paul Levy? It is about his experience as a psychiatric patient and he is very scathing about current psychiatry. He also has videos on YouTube.

I found it useful to start with more 'peripheral' identities such as 'I am in a bad mood' or 'I have a rash on my hand' and work my way in to more core identities. I found that 'what I identify as' could handle that process more than a straight out questioning of what I thought was an essential identity. And I have no notion of enlightenment. 'I am not enlightened' 'I am enlightened' - more statements to question. Best wishes,

My take: This is a function of how well you are willing to align with your highest level of consciousness. I have begun to realize that if I am stable enough in my highest level, then others at other levels do not really affect my level; I am aware of them and can appreciate 'where they are,' and can relate to them, (even from their level), but do not essentially 'get involved' in their level (ie, in it but not of it). What I mean by this is that I am apparently in a physical world, but I know that it is essentially a mental experience, which means that how I interpret my experience is a function of my level of consciousness.

You appear to have overlooked the movement that results after say a pinprick in the arm.

There is something wrong with green! That is why there is a need to transcend it. But there is also a lot right with green and that is what needs to be fully appreciated. If it is not appreciated for what it is, or was, then it cannot be integrated into the new view.